it's the seat of power here in the u.s. the place where laws are made and decisions are debated but not this year the one hundred twelfth congress has been given the title the do nothing congress so how can washington govern in this partisan gridlock we'll dive into that topic in just a moment. and from email to skype texting and g. chatting we live in a high tech world but how can you keep your private information private so we'll look into cyber security and the trend of left oh parties. and sex sells porn is

a multibillion dollar a year industry in southern california what should adult film performer a dull performers be required to wear condoms there's a battle brewing over personal freedom is off angeles we'll speak with an adult film actress to get her take coming up. it's friday september twenty first five pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you're watching r.t. . well topping the news this hour congress is officially wrapping up its last few days before in session before the november elections and short of a mathematical miracle the one hundred twelfth congress could go down in history as the least productive since the one nine hundred forty seven do nothing congress that served under president truman but it's worse than that the one hundred forty seven congress was able to pass some nine hundred six bills as of last month the one hundred twelfth congress has passed

a mere one hundred seventy three now looking beyond the numbers the fact that capitol hill is is that capitol hill is getting ready to close and hasn't found a solution for military funding taxes the farm's bill cyber security and much much more for an inside look of what exactly is going on here congressman danny kaye davis who represents the seventh district of illinois joined me earlier well i think we have formally recess. i think quite some time and it's so unfortunate because this was such an excellent opportunity to pass meaningful legislation and signed serious relief for the american people to think that we don't have a budget you know live in on a continuing resolution when there are things that we know need to be done transportation for example we know that everybody could benefit from

a transportation bill that would create jobs spur economic development as well as you know fix up the infrastructure have always roads bridges all kinds of things but you know if you have one part of the process saying that their main objective is to make sure that the president is a one term president that the president should not be reelected and they're going to do whatever they could to make that happen i hope that the american people will understand why we call this a do nothing congress and i know that senator dick durbin actually called transportation bills the easiest on capitol hill now you've been serving in congress since one thousand nine hundred sixty can you compare the congress then

versus the one that we're facing today quite clearly i don't think that we ever experienced since i've been engaged in politics and especially electorial politics the kind of partisanship almost every item that comes up for a vote if it's meaningful you have democrats on one side republicans on the other if you have the house. the senate can't go along with that if the senate passes. legislation then of course the house is not with that and so we end up at a standstill. waitin. election to be some kind of vindication of which side was right which was wrong and i think that's

most fortunate but i mean that's what some people call hardball politics and i hope that the people will realize that the best way to move forward would be to elect and in some instances. individuals who have the interests of the country at heart and do not play this part of brinksmanship all the time and congress and i know that this is a sentiment not only felt by you and felt by the american people that it's one that's been expressed by members of congress they're even claiming about the lack of work that's getting done i want to play for you a quick part of the speech that senator coburn delivered this week about this very issue monday mornings when i get up i get up about four thirty to catch a flight to come back up here. and i've noticed that i have an attitude problem i

don't want to come anymore and the reason i don't want to come anymore is because we're not doing anything to address the real problems that are in front of our country were ignoring the real problems so we can create political contrasts for an election all the while the country is sinking now congress and we also did manage to get a couple responses from other members of to senator coburn's comments so i want to get a listen to them and then i'll get your opinion on both of them. well i enjoy on the job i have a mullard to be representing the sixth district of pennsylvania and i get up every day and i enjoy the work that we do to help people in our district and have a chance to represent them here and vote on important issues so i look forward to it every day i can't speak for other members of congress but i enjoy my job has got not bad well i'm sure it has in the senate so you know i still think we can make

a difference here but i just said it frustrates me and makes me not want to get up on monday and i'm not even in the so as you mentioned we know that historically congress is that are divided between republican and democratic majorities tend to be less productive but this is more than a partisanship this year right. i would think so because we've gotten down to certain kind of philosophical constructs much of the argument has been around the question of taxation for example is it fair to tax the middle class inappropriately and not tax the top one percent of the people with the most money and i think what democrats have been saying is let's be fair across the board and less provide the kind of taxation that everybody can be comfortable with where you tax those at the very top at least somewhere close to the same rate as your tax in those in the middle

and those at the bottom the republicans seemingly will not by that i mean so that's a big issue plus the philosophical issue some people believe that government really shouldn't do a great deal for the in the citizen and the individual taxpayer and that all of the programs that we call safety net they are to be cut. wiped out you know there are times when all we hear about from the other side is cut cut. cut off all you do is cut cut cut all you get is bla bla bla. and then the leave in will be across the people of this great nation and that does not have to apple.

now i know one of the things that you and your fellow house members have faced personally is that this congress has attempted to repeal the house six in particular has attended to repeal the affordable care act a total of thirty three times that i know of so they are attempting to do something are they spending too much time trying to do the wrong thing well i think that anybody who would try their best to dismantle and wipe out one of the most meaningful pieces of legislation that has been passed in this country in the last forty years. i don't understand them. after medicare medicaid in terms of health care for low income people elderly people people who build. we've never seen in. fact.

i mean more than thirty million people get an opportunity to have health insurance who've never had it before people get an opportunity to have a. not. in and out. all of the to receive what i call episodic care. that has to be. and yet we have people. i mean even to the extent of suggesting that that people will. so congressman i also want to take a look at some of the bills that have been passed versus the ones that haven't been passed for you go ahead and bring out that graphic so some of the ones that haven't passed is a zebra mussels barrier act of two thousand and twelve renaming dozens of post offices construction of several courthouses and

a ski area recreational opportunity and handsome act of two thousand and eleven the that ones that are still on the table as the farm bill finances for the military a measure to protect the victims of domestic violence bills to combat cyber crimes and bills to fund the u.s. postal service so it looks like we can agree to name the post office buildings but we can find ways to fund them isn't there a priority less terror or are these just the easiest ones to get past well i think you're exactly right many of them have been passed. me. you know it's going to have a great deal of argument i mean who's going to argue about the name in of a post office who's going to argue about the name and of a federal building but we've been trying for example to get some real direction on what clothes to service needs in order to remain viable and we can't get that

bill passed we can't get agreement on that and i guess we're going to really have to wait until matters the taken by the citizenry and i guess if the citizenry will elect. individuals come in from their congressional districts to help create the composition of the house and senate that can work with the president then i think we would be in much better shape and much better position i don't have a problem with the idea that people will sometimes disagree but you don't have to disagree just for the sake of disagree may i mean you disagree when there is a solid logic to frustration or reason that you feel compelled

to take no we've had people disagree and because they wanted to try and make sure that the president of the united states is not really elected i think the people are going to reject that i think we're going to see come november that the people do want agreement that the people do want some logical decisions being made that people do want to create jobs they want to spur economic development they want to protect the rights of all people including immigrants and others who would come to this country and i guess matters would be in the hands of the people and that's where ultimately they always are and i think we'll see the changes occur in november and congress and we're almost out of time like i want to ask you one quick question and offense or can you tell me the one bill that you would like to see passed before congress is out of session well i'd love to see the farm bill pass

farmers need relief we had a tough summer drought and all kinds of things happen i'd love to see a transportation bill so that we can do some of all these infrastructure things that we need to do and i really like this. i have a budget that people can rely on they know what it is they know what to expect and they know what they are most likely to receive that was danny kaye davis u.s. representative from the seventh district of illinois. switching gears now if you were in the where near an apple store today chances are you saw the black friday like lines of people eager to get their hands on the new i phone five it's part of the cult like culture surrounding the company the new model has a wider screen and better camera and maps systems among other things and as we talked about earlier this week the new i phone isn't the only thing apple is

working on these days the company is finding newer more effective ways to control where you use your phone but as both the public and private sector look for new ways to rein in the wild west known as the internet others are fighting back r.t. weapon douceur andrew blake gives us an inside look at crypto parties and what they can do to protect their privacy. right now right this second you're being watched no there might not be spies snooping around the corner or a vast surveillance system that may or may not be catching your every move what is for certain though is just about any activity conducted on computers can be collected and monitored but is there something you can do about it the answer is yes it's called the crypto party and they're happening right now around the world in places like boston chicago oakland and cairo people are getting together and learning about the basics of digital encryption from learning how to use the tor project a program that allows people to connect to the internet by sending data through

a series of nodes to essentially make traffic almost impossible to monitor or using a simple plugin to ensure conversations are encrypted from others here a beginner's guide computer cryptography is curate out in a single setting where amateurs novices experts and well anyone can explore and learn how to make sure what's meant for one person isn't put out there for everyone scoping out the agendas of some of these advance on crypto party dot org one can see that discussion is largely cover items such as smartphone security but some sort almost all of them is an introduction to the tor project developer nadeem kobe c. has concentrated his efforts in recent years on crypto cat simple browser plug and that allows two or more people to communicate over the web off the record well a lot of people like to use facebook chat and google talk and you know the web services like that and that's great but these services actually communicate what you're talking about to facebook and google and there is no privacy your communications can easily be intercepted by these parties and also by governmental

organizations so cryptic outdoes the same thing it tries to establish a similar web service that's easy to use just as easy to use but at the same time there's also a transparent layer of encryption and all programs like the tor project encrypt or cat are being made so even americans can communicate freely with one another and might be the best move of any in hopes of keeping the internet open. with the launch of wiki leaks in two thousand and six activists around the world were given an established relatively accessible outlet to publish secrets about repressive regimes and air other dirty laundry that some states might not want out in the open but despite president barack obama's campaign promises for the most transparent administration ever the government has ramped up its attack on whistleblowers in fact just recently the house of representatives voted to renew the foreign intelligence surveillance act lets the government spy on emails and phone calls they suspect to be sent to anyone outside of the united states so whether you're a whistleblower or just a regular computer user who wants to keep their personal communications personal

there is a need for corruption even in two thousand and twelve even in the united states but it doesn't have to be a bad thing it's a reason to party in washington and you blake are to do. so are you ready to don your party hat and join the crypto crowd well joining me now is our brian doogan he's a technologist with the open technology institute and he's here to break down these crypto parties hi there are so let's talk about this crypto party i'm a consumer let's pretend you're going to sell this to me pitch it to me. so let's say that you have any concern at all over organizations your company your school the library of government surveilling or censoring your communication. there or you could go online and sift through mounds of documentation sometimes confusing written for incredibly computer savvy users or you could come to your

local crypto party or start one yourself organize one yourself and have local computer experts or computer user cryptography experts train you and your friends on how to do it right and in person and by and i mean this isn't just for techies as you're explaining to me it's for the average joe anybody can learn to do this right absolutely the crypto party is meant to bring together computer savvy users and regular users to train folks how to use encrypted e-mail how to make sure that when they're on online and they're using web sites that those web sites are encrypted appropriately how to use other types of encryption sometimes how to encrypt the actual of the storage device in their computers or so everything that they store on their computer is encrypted from from top to bottom and tell me why i want to do this what exactly what are you protecting myself from. so if you are any any citizen who wants to communicate freely need the freedom to do that in private

and in some cases anonymously so it doesn't matter. whether you feel paranoid or what you might be scared of the point is that everyone has the right and the freedom to send whatever information they need to to the other parties so you should express that right by encrypting all of your communication and sending it that way and we do know that congress is looking into several fiber legislation bills and. an hour or two to protect the internet rein in the internet but i mean what you're saying is that there's other ways to work around even what they're trying to do so can you talk a little bit about why why i mean their argument is that if you have nothing to hide bin then why can't we look is that a valid argument here so part of the issue with with that argument is that knowledge of surveillance for most people the training that we go through specially

today to make us more readily society readily accepting of surveillance in our daily lives also encourages us to modify our own behavior and certain things that we would say and not say certain things that we would otherwise this prevents us from taking part in actual democracy as prevents us from forming forming groups and communicating within those groups freely because we're afraid that everything that we're doing is being surveilled it may be that i may never say a single controversial thing and my life but. if i should ever need to then i should always be free to free to do that and knowledge of this is simply the knowledge of surveillance encourages me to modify my own behavior and some of the critics of the script are party favorites actually fostering a path for criminal activity i mean what do you say about that so open technologies

like most of the technologies that we that we use in cryptography have to be available to everyone in order for them to be. in order in order for us to have an actual open system an open dialogue that is that is available to every you know we can compare this to the system of roads in the united states. it's illegitimate for public funds to go into paying for public infrastructure that only a certain number of people. people who can prove that they're not criminals for whatever reason so in order for. technologies to be legitimate and useful for everyone we have to accept that that is the price of having an open system of having an open dialogue where everyone can take can have an equal part in communicating in contributing to these to these projects free software means that everyone can use it and and the fact that some criminals will use free software is

simply the price of having an open and free. system so you're saying that the potential problem of criminal activity that good that this program will do is outweighing that negative possible consequences mean absolutely most people i mean there absolutely are criminals who who use cryptography there absolutely are criminals who use the roads but by and large most of the people who drive on roads are not criminals and by and large most of the people who use cryptography simply have a need to keep their communications private and let me ask you this question we only have about a minute left but do you think that this puts a target on the backs of the people that are doing these crypto parties for the government to say hey i need to watch this guy so we already know that some governments and. some governments already target encryption by itself some

governments have already blocked encryption especially on the web but. using encryption automatically makes you more easy to pick out from a crowd of from a sea of readily readily readable text is being transmitted across the internet. but transferring this knowledge has to happen in an open environment and that means allowing anyone into that environment and teaching everyone who needs to know about it so the folks who are go. to teach people how to use cryptography can you know how to go forward and can't be afraid they're being surveilled because that's exactly what they're fighting it's an interesting topic i think it's on and we're going to be following and seeing more of that in the days and weeks to come brian doogan technologists at the open technology institute thank you so much for joining us thank you moving on now to california where the porn is big business the porn industry is big business in fact it's a multibillion dollar

a year industry in the l.a. area but should adult performers the required by law to wear condoms when they're on the clock something to seem to think so so much so that they have put the issue on the voting ballot come november but what do adult entertainers think about this well alina jane is a adult film performer rent and she definitely has an opinion i'm sure she just arrived to our l.a. studio to discuss this hi there aaliyah so let's talk about that and i know that this story is more than porn it's more than condoms it's about the right to your own body so let's talk about about why is there shouldn't be a requirement so us think i would assume condoms in this industry. well there's so many so many factors that play with it and one of the main ones to me expression really is our first amendment right. to free speech and if you just

go through the constitution a little bit you can see that. not only is it affecting our first amendment rights but it's also affecting due process because we're not allowed to make money the way that we want to we're not allowed to control our own bodies apparently it's it's very similar to roe versus wade to me the abortion law where women have control over their own bodies when someone is telling me that i am an adult consenting adult an american and i have to wear a condom even though i go through all the testing that needs to be my my partner is tested and that's basically forcing me to do something that i don't think that i should have to do i think that if i want to wear a condom while before i mean i should be able to do that as well i think that it's about choice and people are kind of losing that a little bit they're more worried about the economics of it and and obviously michael was then of the aids healthcare foundation is worried about the about the

health of performers but he doesn't really have all the facts straight and i know that people involved in this industry are tested about every two weeks for s t d's you are without a doubt the most tested people in america so why condoms and why now. well you know there's there's a lot of conspiracy theories as to why all of a sudden he you know started this whole campaign in this whose agenda against the adult industry when we have been self-regulated for a very long time and yes you know accidents happen and you know as cities are our job hazards like a construction worker has to worry about things falling on him or getting a nail in the hand you know those are his. you know job hazards our job hazards are as c.d.'s and yes obviously we know that it's very possible that we could contract one but considering that how often that we get tested and all of us do and most of us that live in l.a.

work together we don't give him to other as he has is when someone sleeps with someone outside of the industry that's not tested that's how it gets into the industry and let's talk about the labor aspect of this there was a case when one of the all film actor gave several of his colleagues fifa with how can you trust your colleagues with your own health and are you willing to put that right at risk you know that is definitely a one in a million times like i i've met the performer before that i had had altered his tests you know. i can't really explain as to why he did that but no one else has done that and you know i'm not sure anyone really work with him and he more they have fixed the testing so you know the paperwork so that it can be altered there's also a more accurate system that we have now that. directors and the health care

professionals can spot that and be able to stop their performance from work again and we do know that the california isn't doing that well on the economic front as i mentioned earlier this is a multi-billion dollar industry so we'll have to see how this plays out because i know you guys have threatened before to leave california adult film performer jeanine thank you so much for joining us thank you so much megan and breaking the set is coming up in thirty minutes on our team let's check in with abby martin to see what's on today's agenda abby meghan what's going on hey not much one of you got cooking for us so we got a lot of stuff today we're going to totally crush the two party dictatorship we've got someone coming on talking about how they can bridge progressivism with libertarianism and totally just go outside of the box of the pre-determined narrative about what we should be doing and what we should be voting for in this political system that we have today also we are completely destroying the narrative of the drug war we have exclusive interview the former president of columbia.